gh-96761: Fix build process of the clang compiler for _bootstrap_python (gh-96945)

Co-authored-by: Matthias Goergens <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 83d84e6)

Co-authored-by: Dong-hee Na <[email protected]>

Author: miss-islington

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2022-09-20-12-43-44.gh-issue-96761.IF29kR.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix the build process of clang compiler for :program:`_bootstrap_python` if
+LTO optimization is applied. Patch by Matthias Görgens and Dong-hee Na.

configure

@@ -1782,7 +1782,7 @@ then
 fi
 AC_MSG_RESULT($PROFILE_TASK)
 
-# Make llvm-relatec checks work on systems where llvm tools are not installed with their
+# Make llvm-related checks work on systems where llvm tools are not installed with their
 # normal names in the default $PATH (ie: Ubuntu).  They exist under the
 # non-suffixed name in their versioned llvm directory.
 
@@ -1836,8 +1836,10 @@ esac
 if test "$Py_LTO" = 'true' ; then
   case $CC in
     *clang*)
-      dnl flag to disable lto during linking
       LDFLAGS_NOLTO="-fno-lto"
+      dnl Clang linker requires -flto in order to link objects with LTO information.
+      dnl Thin LTO is faster and works for object files with full LTO information, too.
+      AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([-flto=thin],[LDFLAGS_NOLTO="-flto=thin"],[LDFLAGS_NOLTO="-flto"])
       AC_SUBST(LLVM_AR)
       AC_PATH_TOOL(LLVM_AR, llvm-ar, '', ${llvm_path})
       AC_SUBST(LLVM_AR_FOUND)